NIMASA STCW MSA case studies

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The NIMASA STCW Maritime Safety Administration Examination is the assessment route through which Nigeria's maritime administration verifies that seafarers and shore-side maritime personnel meet the standards of the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers. Candidates typically include deck officers and ratings, engineer officers and engine-room ratings, and personnel seeking Nigerian certificates of competency or proficiency, endorsements, or revalidation. The NIMASA STCW MSA case studies are 5 cases and about 5,683 words.

Crossing traffic in a buoyed approach channel - who gives way, and how much?

MV BIGHT HARVESTER, a 189 m bulk carrier making 12.4 kn, is outbound through a buoyed approach channel steering 000° T. The master is below after a long pilotage; you are the sole OOW with an AB at the wheel and a lookout forward.

1,181 words, about 6 min 2

Scavenge space fire with the ship committed to a narrow channel

At 0240 the duty engineer wakes you in the cabin next to the control room. On the 10-cylinder, 9,500 kW slow-speed main engine burning HFO at 72 rpm, No.

1,137 words, about 6 min 3

A 24-tonne lift with the ship's own crane and two slack tanks

MV RIVER OGOJA, a 12,000 t deadweight multipurpose ship, is alongside at Onne loading a skid-mounted gas compressor of 24 t into the lower hold. Present condition: displacement 8,900 t, KG 6.10 m, solid GM 0.45 m.

1,044 words, about 5 min 4

A capped 15 ppm alarm eight miles off the coast

MV GULF HARMONY, a 47,000 GT product tanker, is 8 nm off the Nigerian coast, inbound to Lagos, and will embark a pilot at 0600. At 0230 the Third Engineer tells you, as the OOW, that the oily water separator's 15 ppm alarm has been capped and the overboard valve wired open for the last two hours; machinery space bilges have been discharged while the ship was under way.

1,153 words, about 6 min 5

Two men down in a hold of direct reduced iron

MV DELTA TRADER is carrying a full cargo of direct reduced iron (DRI, cargo type A) in five holds, bound from Warri to Lagos at 11 kn. At 0915 the bosun and an AB, who opened No.

1,168 words, about 6 min